The annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to Keighley, a town where Phil and son Brian run a barbershop and Phil's ex-wife Shelly and her lover Sandra run a beauty salon.
Acting
Rickman and Richardson's divorced couple chemistry hits devastating hard.
Costume
Early 2000s competition hair that defies gravity and taste.
Writing
Simon Beaufoy script has surprising tenderness under the cheese.
Director
Paddy Breathnach
Alan Rickman
Phil Allen
Natasha Richardson
Shelley Allen
Rachel Griffiths
Sandra
Rachael Leigh Cook
Christina Robertson
Josh Hartnett
Brian Allen
Bill Nighy
Ray Robertson
Warren Clarke
Tony
Rosemary Harris
Daisy
Hugh Bonneville
Louis
Heidi Klum
Jasmine
Peter McDonald
Vincent
Michael McElhatton
Robert
David Bradley
Noah
Ben Crompton
Saul
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Natasha Richardson and Rachel Griffiths had to learn actual hairdressing skills; their competition scenes used real models and live cutting.
One of the few mainstream 2000s films to feature a lesbian couple without making their relationship the central conflict—radical for its time, though it sidelined Sandra significantly.
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